In stereotype : South Asia in the global literary imaginary /

In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereoptypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant fl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chakravorty, Mrinalini (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Colección:Literature Now.
Temas:
1900-2099
South Asian literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
South Asian literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Littérature sud-asiatique > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature sud-asiatique > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Stéréotypes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
South Asian literature
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
Zuid-Azië
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Stereotypes as provocation
  • Why the stereotype? Why South Asia?
  • To understand me, you'll have to swallow a world : margins, multitudes, and the nation in Salman 's Midnight's children
  • Slumdog or white tiger? the abjection and allure of slums
  • The dead that haunt Anil's ghost : subaltern stereotypes and postcolonial melancholia
  • From Bangladesh to Brick lane : the biocultural stereotypes of migrancy
  • Good and bad Indians : outsourcing and terror
  • The afterlife of stereotypes.

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